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Creep-a-Day Challenge Day 8

Halloween
Diorama!

Now we shall never grow old...

Today
I was going to make a pendant, but wasn’t feeling it. I looked around the
Halloween room (yes, I have a room decked out in Halloween year-round) and
spied a cigar box that was too big for a previous project and my wheels started
turning. I was gonna rock a Halloween diorama!

Scrapbook
paper of your choice (I used 12x12 sheets in 3 different designs)

Glue
or double-sided tape

Scissors

Ruler

Hot
glue gun

Ric rac trim

The
How:

Some of the supplies you'll need!

Much
like the making of MAN BAT, this craft was kind of a blur, but I took a few more
photos this time.

The
cigar box I used was too big and the whole sheet of paper wouldn’t cover all
sides. I used double-sided tape to secure it to the back and top and bottom of
the box with a little bit of an overlap to the inside of the box. Then I got
another sheet of the same paper and cut out pieces that would fit the exposed
sides and taped them in place too.

Nice cutting job...

Next,
I trimmed down the cemetery scene paper so that it covered the interior of the
box--but not the inside bottom. (does that even make sense???) I taped this paper in place too.

Oh, THAT'S ric rac!

I
didn’t like how the edges looked so I grabbed some ric rac from another
project and cut strips to cover the edges of the box. With care and stealth, I
hot glued those strips into place and I’m happy to report that I didn’t burn
myself! I’m sure if I tried to take a photo while gluing, something bad would
have happened.

With
the trim finished, I needed something for the scene…but what? I knew I had lots
of cute little figurines and some rad glow-in-the-dark zombies, but they didn’t
seem to work for this project. Finally it hit me: why not cut out pictures of the hubby and me in
our favorite Halloween costumes??? Excellent work, brain of mine!

Paper dolls!

I
hunted through all of my photos and copied and pasted them into Microsoft Word
and did a quick and dirty job enlarging our photos. I printed them out and
grabbed a piece of thick cardstock as a backer.

I
taped our images to the cardstock and then used tiny scissors to cut our images
out. Aren't we adorable???

Now
we stand, frozen in time in our own little cemetery of love…I might add more
bits and pieces later on, but for now, I’m very pleased with how this craft
turned out!

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About Carey

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I am a horror writer with a love of all things zombie, vampire, or ghost. I haven't hit the "Big Time" yet but I'm getting closer with each story published. If I'm not writing, I'm probably making something out of beads, polymer clay, or paper mache. Cupcakes are my weapon of choice.